July 31, 2018

Mark Roberts, who is running for Congress in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional district, called First Lady Melania Trump a “hoe bag” and implied she’s a prostitute who “works by the hour” in a tweet on Monday. Roberts, challenging Republican incumbent Greg Walden for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, was responding to a tweet by Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk who noted Trump used fewer staffers than Michelle Obama did.

Melania has five staffers; Mooch had 40. Roberts' response demonstrates he's unfit to hold the office for which he's running; Walden should easily win reelection. District 2 is east of the Cascades, where people are generally conservative.

May 23, 2018

The latest entrant is (surprise!) the so-called Southern Poverty Law Center:

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday denounced the Trump administration's MS-13 "animals" label as "unacceptable" and "racist."

"It is unacceptable for such racist, dehumanizing language to now be repeated 10 times on the White House website in a document that speaks for America,' SPLC tweeted.

Such good little Leftists!

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and other Democrats criticized the president for the comments and accused him of calling all migrants, animals.

Well, before they get all high and mighty, maybe the Lefties should actually acquaint themselves with how these animals operate:

In Maryland, MS-13’s animals are accused of stabbing a man more than 100 times and then decapitating him, dismembering him, and ripping his heart out of his body. Police believe MS-13 members in Maryland also savagely beat a 15-year-old human trafficking victim. The MS-13 animals used a bat and took turns beating her nearly 30 times in total.

Presumably the bat wasn't rabid....

SPLC continued this week to denounce Trump's remarks as dehumanizing and "dangerous," arguing not even MS-13 members should be characterized in such a way.

Um, yes they should. SPLC, Pelosi, and other Lefties are...well, Lefties, which means they can have any kind of sense they want - as long as it isn't common.

April 25, 2018

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released 281 pages of newly uncovered emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the U.S. Department of State sent and received over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system. The emails, dated 2010 through 2013, contain classified information and detail collusion between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

These new classified and other emails appear to be among those that Clinton had attempted to delete or had otherwise failed to disclose.

They were turned over due to a FOIA lawsuit that was necessitated after State failed to respond to JW's FOIA request back on March 4, 2015.

“It is shameful that Hillary Clinton attempted to delete or hide classified information and that Obama appointees James Comey and Loretta Lynch refused to prosecute her,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is clear that the Clintons were using the State Department to run an extensive influence peddling scheme."

And HRC continues to blame everybody but herself for her loss to Trump, when "What Happened" was that people were fed up with her lies and her scams, to say nothing of the body count.

March 03, 2018

Kentucky looks to be fixin' to keep its child-rape law in place, meaning that old guys can continue to take child brides.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill to make 18 the legal age for marriage in Kentucky has stalled in a Senate committee amid concerns about the rights of parents to allow children to wed at a younger age, according to several lawmakers.

Known as the "child bride" bill, Senate Bill 48 was pulled off the agenda just hours before a scheduled vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the second time in two weeks.

Eileen Recktenwald, the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs, was upset:

"This is legalized rape of children," she said. "We cannot allow that to continue in Kentucky, and I cannot believe we are even debating this in the year 2018 in the United States."

February 02, 2018

At least California's going to have 119 miles of high-speed rail between nowhere and nowhere!

California is rapidly plunging back into drought, with severe conditions now existing in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties—home to one-fourth of the state's population, a national drought monitor said Thursday.

Given the choice of building more storage reservoirs or building a high speed train to nowhere, everybody knows what choices have been made in Sacramento. Water apparently is not high on their list at this point. Yet. It will be: historically, droughts in southern California have lasted for two centuries.

Governor Moonbeam's proclamations to the contrary notwithstanding, this is not the "new normal"; it's the normal normal. The area around the Los Angeles basin and deserts to the north are incompatible with a human population of around 20 million, nor have they ever been conducive to intensive agriculture. What we're seeing is a return to normal conditions for those areas.

California could have built more retention reservoirs to counter the effects of normal conditions, but the politicians went with billions of dollars in train lines instead. But "sanctuary states" have priorities. And water doesn't seem to be among them.

January 21, 2018

Seven years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, Moonbeam's dream won't be running any time soon.

Seems as though the money could have been put to more productive infrastructure uses, as it's faster and less expensive to simply get on a plane; 220 miles an hour isn't exactly "bullet-speed". And that's only 119 miles of track between the Central Valley in northern California to Sacramento, with something like seven stops along the way.

Perhaps Moonbeam hopes to host the next global warming summit somewhere in the Valley.

Everybody can take his train! How cool would that be?

$67 billion (and counting) worth of cool? Supporters claim that it's too big to fail, while critics point out that the money, having already been wasted, can't be unwasted, so it'd be best to kill it now. Nobody's going to ride the thing, because people can drive or fly for less. And it'll already be outdated if it even achieves is projected debut sometime in 2025.

January 20, 2018

“My three brothers and I learned about our family heritage back in Oklahoma the way everyone does,” Warren said in a brief phone interview from storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, where she led a delegation of Massachusetts lawmakers this month. “From our aunts, our uncles, and our grandparents. I never asked for any benefit from it and I never got any benefit from it.”

Oh really?

Over the course of her life, Warren did at times embrace this family story of Native American roots. In 1984, she contributed five recipes to a Native American cookbook entitled “Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes From Families of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.” In the book, which was edited by her cousin and unearthed during her 2012 campaign by the Boston Herald, her name is listed as “Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee.”

Warren also listed herself as a minority in a legal directory published by the Association of American Law Schools from 1986 to 1995. She’s never provided a clear answer on why she stopped self-identifying.

She was also listed as a Native American in federal forms filed by the law schools at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania where she worked.

And in 1996, as Harvard Law School was being criticized for lacking diversity, a spokesman for the law school told the Harvard Crimson that Warren was Native American.

Oh, heck no - she never got any benefit. Do Democratics know how to do anything other than lie?

January 06, 2018

SALEM — The Oregon Government Ethics Commission on Friday unanimously voted that there is enough evidence to show former first lady Cylvia Hayes violated ethics law 22 times, largely by using her public position to win a paid fellowship and several contracts for her environmental consulting firm between 2011 and 2013.

Hayes served as a “super lobbyist” for private consulting clients who paid her to advocate on green energy, Commissioner Daniel Mason said.

Her tearful "apology" (after she got caught dirty). She even had a box of tissues on the podium, just to prove how upset she was.

She faces fines of up to $110,000. On top of that, commissioners could propose she pay double the amount of money she received from work acquired as a result of her positions as first lady and policy adviser to Gov. John Kitzhaber. That could equal hundreds of thousands of dollars, ethics investigator Marie Scheffers said.

Next up: The Cowboy Johnny ethics investigation continues, and the ethics commission seems to believe that as he was the vehicle that enabled her profiteering, and so should be held to even higher standards. This isn't ending well for either the disgraced former governor or his First Squeeze. Of course, ethics has never been the former First Squeeze's strong suite. She glommed onto him for dollars and power, and Cowboy Johnny was dumb enough to go with it.

He might squeak by, arguing that he was "blinded by love", but that excuse seems unlikely to fly.

Portland and Seattle politicians appear to be engaged in a contest to determine which city can claim the title of "Best Virtue Signalling". The losers of such contests are inevitably the residents, who end up paying dearly.

The virtue-signalers are really socking it to Seattle residents, but at least people can buy in nearby cities without paying that stupid tax; just drive on over!

Unfortunately, if Portland homeowners want to sell and get out of this hellhole, they now have to pay - on top of the other costs incurred with selling a home - another $250 or so to an "energy audit" company. They'll send someone out to "score" the home's energy efficiency. Homeowners then have to pay to forward a copy to the city before putting the home on the market, and they're required to give a copy to each prospective buyer. And there's no guarantee that the "audit" will even be accurate:

Mark Wheeler, the owner of Roots Realty in Southeast Portland, said an energy score audit of one client's house failed to include a high-efficiency furnace. "If my clients had spent $250 on doing some actual energy improvement on the house I'd feel good about that," he said. "But they spent $250 on a flawed piece of paper."

At least they can avoid the city's additional 10-cents-a-gallon fuel tax by gassing up outside the city.

But they'll still have to pay what the city amusingly refers to as an "Arts Tax" - that's another $35 per head on everyone in the household (except those who collect a public employee pension; kind of nifty, the way the city council managed to exclude themselves and other "poor" public employees).

December 29, 2017

I’m going to say something really crazy: I believe in science. Climate change is real and we have a moral obligation to protect this Earth for our children and grandchildren.

Cool. Now she can bone up on the science of fetal development, and then the science of genetics as it applies to gender. And ethnicity, as she claimed to be of Cherokee heritage in order to advance her career. On the other hand, when has she said anything that wasn't really crazy?

Of course, her tweet was in response to one by President Tweet, who said: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record,” Trump said in a tweet Thursday. “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!”

By the way, Thresher sharks have been washing ashore on the east coast:

“Working with Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and NOAA Fisheries Service, the AWSC team was called out to two thresher shark strandings along the Cape today,” the statement read. “Both of these male sharks were nearly the same size and likely stranded due to cold shock. Morphometric data, organs, and tissue samples were collected to be examined (once they thaw).”

No wonder they're calling it "climate change" now. It's not about "global warming" or (as back in the 1970s) "global cooling". It's about controlling you. You are Bad for the Planet; they can jet around the globe to give speeches at "conferences", but you're supposed to walk or ride a bicycle. And don't forget to recycle!

Remember, whether it's cold or hot, it's All Your Fault. That's why it's so important for politicians to fly down to Brazil and back, or over to Paris and back, in order to solemnly discuss the severity of the problems that you are creating.